Events

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Ayelet Tsabari—Songs from a Yemeni Israeli Legacy VIRTUAL

Join us on Wednesday, May 21 at 7 PM ET, for a conversation with Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari, who mined her own Yemini background for Songs for the Brokenhearted, winner of a 2024 National Jewish Book Award, a sweeping mutigenerational novel about love, loss and reconnection and the complex history of Yemeni Jews in Israel. Free and open to all.

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A Love Song to My Jewish Yemeni Community: with Ayelet Tsabari VIRTUAL

Join the New York Jewish Week in partnership with UJA-Federation New York for the next event in our Folio literary series: author Aylelet Tsabari joins us to discuss Mizrahi Jewish identity, the allure and trauma of family secrets, and how authors like Tsabari are trying to make themselves heard in a market that has become hostile to Israeli voices. She will be joined in conversation with Andrew Silow-Carroll, Editor at Large of the New York Jewish Week.

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Reading and Conversation at Saint John Jewish Historical Museum, NB, Canada

You are invited to join award-winning Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari for a reading from her debut novel Songs for the Broken Hearted and a conversation moderated by Lynn Bessoudo, writer and Jewish community member. An informal reception will follow. Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing by the author.

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King’s College MFA Mentor Reading, Halifax, NS, Canada

Join the MFA program at King's College University for a mentor reading. Halifax public library, central branch, 7pm.

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2025 Glob­al Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Alliance Con­ver­sa­tion: How to Tell a Jew­ish Sto­ry with Manya Wilkin­son and Ayelet Tsabari VIRTUAL

Join the Glob­al Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Alliance for a con­ver­sa­tion with Manya Wilkin­son and Ayelet Tsabari on being sto­ry­tellers, their jour­neys into the writ­ing world, what inspires them, and how their approach­es to writ­ing dif­fer. The con­ver­sa­tion will dis­cuss their approach­es to writ­ing their books, how they chose these sto­ries to tell, and why telling Jew­ish sto­ries, and these spe­cif­ic Jew­ish sto­ries, is so impor­tant, right now and always. This con­ver­sa­tion will be mod­er­at­ed by Emi­ly Kas­riel, author of Deep Lis­ten­ing: Trans­form your Rela­tion­ships with Fam­i­ly, Friends and Foes. Virtual, 12:00 EST. Free. For more information and for tickets go here: